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A New Method of Autonomous Navigation for Deep Space Explorer Based on Information Fusion

Ning Xiaolin Fang Jiancheng (School of Astronautics, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing 10083)   

  • Online:2004-02-25
  • Supported by:
    民用航天预研资助项目;; 国家自然科学基金 (批准号 60 1740 3 1)资助项目

Abstract: Celestial navigation is one of the important methods of the deep space probe to realize autonomous navigation. Based on the orbit kinetic equation and the observation information to the orb, at the same time using the Kalman filter to accurately estimate the position and velocity of the spacecraft. But these angle measurements can't provide enough information to estimate the position of explorer with a high precision. This paper presents a new method of autonomous navigation which using both the celestial method and one-way Doppler measurement from ground stations based on information fusion. The simulation results show that the high precision of position determination can be obtained.